Ho Ho Ho

Coloma CA

This past weekend Andi and I took a trip to a small sleep gold mining section of California. We traveled around to a bunch of small towns that used to have people flock to them in search of gold.

 This was the area right next to where we stayed. Very peaceful.

 While driving around we discovered an old mining area that had collapsed. You can still see some of it in the water. 

 In the small town of Auburn, they had a huge statue of a gold miner. 

Old hotel and saloon.

 We also stumbled upon an old cemetery from the 1800's.

 Lot's of families were buried together in the cemetery, most of them not to old when they died.

 This women and her child must have died at childbirth because the baby is only named "Infant Davis."

 I thought the bottom line on this tombstone was interesting: "Not dead but sleeping here Dead Parents." Weird!

 This was the Hawk Family

Nathan was in the Mormon Battalion and Rider of the Californian Star Express. Couldn't find anything online about the Express.  

 This was the newest tombstone I found in the cemetery. Looks like Henry is riding the Big O'l Rig in the sky.......

 Coolest tombstone I found! "Texas Ellen" worked in a house of ill fame!!

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Monday Andi and I took a trip about 30 minutes up the road from us to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. Not only do they have rides and games but they also have an entire zoo like theme.

They had some penguins from Africa that had just woken up and were very active.  

This big guy was a sea lion that someone had shot in the face with a shotgun and left for dead. He almost didn't make it but pulled through and is happily living in the park. For $6 you can get 3 fishes to feed them. 

 If you look just above his nose on the left you can make out the holes that are left over from where he got shot. 

One of his friends. 

 They had a huge fish tank area with different types of sharks and fish. I couldn't get great photo's as the little bastards were moving pretty fast. I like the evil look in the sharks eyes above from my camera.

 It was very relaxing to watch them swim. I must get a large fish tank in the future!

 A stingray

 Giraffes!! 

Mr. Giraffe can't stop chewing!!

 King of the jungle and his women

 A beautiful Arctic wolf named Tala. She was so sweet!

 Tried to get a good photo of this little monkey but he was going crazy and wouldn't stop moving!! 

 Female cheetah

 Elephants didn't want to come out and play

 Sleepy tiger.

 Probably my favorite Looney Tune!

All in all a fun time. The park didn't have much in the way of games or interesting rides but the animals made up for it.